''L'Esprit Créateur'' is a quarterly

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established in 1961 and published by the

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. The journal is dedicated to the study of

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and

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, and the

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and

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surrounding them. Each issue focuses on a specific theme or critical issue and includes reviews and illustrations. The journal's founding editor was John Erickson. The current

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are

Mária Minich Brewer Mária is a Hungarian and Slovak form of Maria (given name) or Mary (given name). As of December 2020, Mária is the most common female given name in Slovakia. With over 193 thousands Slovak women bearing the name, it has a substantial lead over ...

and

Daniel Brewer Daniel Josev Brewer, who goes by the stage name Sintax the Terrific, sometimes stylized as Sintax.the.Terrific or simply Sintax, is an American Christian hip hop musician and a founding member of both The Pride and the supergroup collective, De ...

(Department of French and Italian,

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External links

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''L’Esprit Créateur'' on the Johns Hopkins University Press website

''L’Esprit Créateur''
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